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SUMMARY:Surrey Group: Social
DESCRIPTION:Join the Surrey Group on Tuesday 11 August from 12pm for their summer social. \nIn this meet up\, we will meet for lunch with convivial company at our usual spot; The Seahorse\, 52-54 The Street\, Shalford\, Guildford\, GU4 8BU. \nThis is a chance to chat and catch up and enjoy what is bound to be perfect weather! \nAll writerly and bookish guests welcome. \nTo attend the meeting\, click the Going button below and fill out the RSVP form. If you do not receive a confirmation email\, or have trouble signing up\, please contact localgroups@societyofauthors.org. \n Please email member-volunteer Howard Matthews with any questions.
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/surrey-group-social-110826/
LOCATION:The Seahorse\, 52-54 The Street\, Guildford\, GU4 8BU
CATEGORIES:SoA local group meet-up
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SUMMARY:Surrey Group: The Dark Art of Editing
DESCRIPTION:Join the Surrey Group on Tuesday 14 July from 12pm to hear from editor\, ghostwriter and submission coach\, Rebecca Rennie on the dark art of editing. \nIn this condensed 30-minute session\, Rebecca will explore how an editor can transform your book. Rebecca will demonstrate some of the most common editorial pitfalls that can undermine your work and how editors change writers’ lives. \nRebecca works mostly\, but not exclusively\, with non-fiction\, memoir\, self-help and private family history books. She will use specific examples from a selection of books she has worked on from inception to publication: ‘The Many Faces of Crime: A True Detective’s Chronicle’ by Dennis McGookin\, ‘Around the World with Dr Nina Simone: The Drummer’s Tale’\, amongst others. \nFeel free to ask Rebecca any questions over lunch regarding her more extended talk on The Dark Art of Editing\, which includes: \n\nThe different types of editors and what they do\nThe ‘creative editor’ as writing partner and coach\n‘Showing’ versus ‘telling’ with practical examples\nCommon editorial pitfalls\, including overused words\, excessive adverbs and filler phrases\nClunky\, repetitive and inconsistent writing\nDashes (there are 3!)\, house styles\, consistency\, and why copy editors matter\nStructural issues that affect clarity\, pacing and reader engagement\nUseful resources\, publications and organisations for writers\n\nWe’ll meet at The Seahorse\, 52-54 The Street\, Shalford\, Guildford\, GU4 8BU. \nAll writerly and bookish guests welcome! \nTo attend the meeting\, click the Going button below and fill out the RSVP form. If you do not receive a confirmation email\, or have trouble signing up\, please contact localgroups@societyofauthors.org. \n Please email member-volunteer Howard Matthews with any questions.
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/surrey-group-the-dark-art-of-editing-by-editor-ghostwriter-and-submission-coach-rebecca-rennie-140726/
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SUMMARY:Surrey Group: Writing Characters With Disabilities
DESCRIPTION:Join the Surrey Group on Tuesday 9 June from 12pm to hear from children’s authors Alex Strick and Ally Sherrick in a discussion of the challenges and rewards of researching and writing fiction for young people featuring protagonists with disabilities. \nQuestions they’ll tackle include how to make your characters authentic\, how to avoid common pitfalls and tropes\, and what success might look like. \nUsing her middle-grade novel The Queen’s Fool\, Ally will explore how to approach portraying a character with a learning disability in history. Alex will share the latest news about Reflecting Disability\, an Arts Council funded study into the representation of people with disabilities in children’s literature of which she’s a co-facilitator with friend and colleague\, Beth Cox. \nWe’ll meet at The Seahorse\, 52-54 The Street\, Shalford\, Guildford\, GU4 8BU. \nAll writerly and bookish guests welcome! \nTo attend the meeting\, click the Going button below and fill out the RSVP form. If you do not receive a confirmation email\, or have trouble signing up\, please contact localgroups@societyofauthors.org. \n Please email member-volunteer Howard Matthews with any questions.
URL:https://societyofauthors.org/event/surrey-group-writing-characters-with-disabilities-090626/
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